Global distribution and climate forcing of marine organic aerosol: 1. Model improvements and evaluation

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 11689-11705

  Meskhidze, N ^a   Xu, J ^a,b   Gantt, B ^a   Zhang, Y ^a   Nenes, A ^c,d   Ghan, S J ^e   Liu, X ^e   Easter, R ^e   Zaveri, R ^e  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BIOGENIC EMISSION; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ISOPRENE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MONOTERPENE; PARAMETERIZATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEA SALT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC NORTHWEST; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 81855172322     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-11689-2011     Document Type: Article

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